Noise from the Basement

Book: Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy Author: Sheryl Sandberg, Adam Grant

Option B is not what I thought it would be about.  I thought it would be about what to do when your first plan fails for some reason.  Like plans you consciously made, such as a business plan, trip, etc.

Turns out the book is coming up with an option B for plans you didn’t even think you where making.  Such as assuming your family won’t die or won’t get seriously ill.  It is Sheryl Sandberg’s account of her husbands unexpected passing how she dealt with it.  She talks to others who dealt with death of loved ones and also what research says about dealing with death.  It does focus on other issues such as illness and other major life tragedies but mostly about death.

The notes I took when trying to upgrade the NUnit Xamarin project to NUnit 3.8.1.  The reason I did this was to fix issue #87.  When I try to us NUnit Xamarin on another project it fails with the following error:

 
D/Mono ( 2233): Assembly Loader probing location: 'System.Runtime.Loader'. 
F/monodroid-assembly( 2233): Could not load assembly 'System.Runtime.Loader' during startup registration. 
F/monodroid-assembly( 2233): This might be due to an invalid debug installation.

Remember these are just notes and lack the polish [what polish? –Ed] of my other technical articles.

Just a quick public service announcement (PSA) that the Arduino H Bridge is sharp and pointy.  Both my daughter and myself hurt our fingers but only I was lucky enough to draw blood when one of the H Bridge pins got stuck under my finger nail.  I mean look at this insect looking pointy bastard.

All that pain and blood was worth it as we did finally get the lesson 10 (Zoetrope) from the Arduino Start Kit working.  We couldn’t get the example as shown in the book to work because we didn’t understand how the H Bridge worked.

Several months ago I discussed how to manually build an objective-c project so it can be consumed by a Xamarin Binding Project.  In this post I show how to automate the building of the objective-c project.  In my case I need to automate the building of the BEMCheckBox project but hopefully you can generalize this specific example for your own needs.

For this post I’ll assume you have a TeamCity server setup along with a TeamCity build agent on a Mac.  For help installing a TeamCity server see the official documentation.  For help installing a Mac build agent please see my previous post and/or the official documentation.

The first Edmonton .NET User Group (EDMUG) talk of the 2017-2018 season is this Monday, September 18th.  The talk is by Shenyi Bao and is titled Web Site Performance Tuning.  All the details can be found here.

Please also don’t forget about the EDMUG survey.  If you are part of the EDMUG group, or are thinking of joining, please take a couple minutes to fill out the survey.

Finally we are always looking for engaging and passionate speakers for the EDMUG meetups.  If you, or someone you know, would like to present please let us know by e-mailing chris.cumming@saturdaymp.com or info@edmug.net.